PEANUT BUTTER TREE Bunchosia argentea

This attractive tree has clusters of yellow flowers that are followed by an abundance of dark red fruit to around 2.5cm long. The rich, sweet flesh has a texture similar to peanut butter. The fruit can be eaten fresh or made into milk shakes.

Peanut Butter Tree - Bunchosia

Peanut Butter Tree - Bunchosia

Easy to grow shrub / small tree. Likes good drainage and organic fertiliser. Plenty of water in the growing season. Flowers Spring through to Summer. Seeds / nuts are green at first, then colour up when ripe in late Summer. Tasty snack! | David White - West Ryde Sydney, NSW 29-Dec-2008

Peanut Butter Tree

This is not a tip but a question. Does anyone know why a lot of flowerbuds fall off without opening? Hundreds of mine have dropped off and only now some flowers are opening and the fruits are starting to form. | Helen Shaw - Kenmore Brisbane, QLD 27-Nov-2009

Peanut Butter Tree

Planted 3 years ago on well drained slope and has been fruiting since December. Still flowering and fruiting in March with constant supply of ripe fruit. Note that flowers dropped last season without fruiting, but lots this season. | Anthony Florence - Townsville, QLD 16-Mar-2012

Peanut Butter Tree

Love this tree. Very pretty and can stand cold, windy, exposed sites. Unusual tasting fruit. Sweet but pasty. Takes a while to get used to but very yummy. Sweet,delicate and best eaten straight off the tree as soon as it turns red. | Min Taylor - Rosevale, QLD 25-Feb-2013

Peanut Butter Tree

Mine looks to have an iron deficiency so maybee they like acidic soils. i will lower the pH with ag sulphur and see what happens. | Gimme - Brisbane, QLD 16-Sep-2013

Peanut Butter Tree

Love this tree and the fruit. Can be pruned to a shortish shrub size with no ill effects. Interested to know how to get its seeds to sprout? | Elizbaeth Woods - Pallara, Brisbane, QLD 25-Feb-2014

Peanut Butter Tree

Planted mine just over 18mts ago,rapid growth and first crop was huge with well over 200 fruit!!! Did not fertilize must be climate & rich volcanic soil | Chris Gueho - Atherton, QLD 01-Mar-2015

Grows quite quickly but seems to be semi Decidious in our area. New growth is a yellow green but then darkens to a nice dark green. Fruit is abundant and does taste like peanut butter. Birds find it most attractive.

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

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Peanut Butter Trees are beautiful, they have bright yellow flowers and bright red fruit which appear on the tree at the same time, I am plantingg it for its ornamental qualities as well as for the unusual peanut butter flavoured fruits.

Planted: 2011

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

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Still in it's pot, and suffered from insect attact. Probably snails, almost defoliated it, but it's on the way back. There were flowers when I received it and I got a couple of fruit off it before winter. It needs to find a home in the ground but I'll see how it goes in the pot for another year or so.

Easy to grow water with all the other plants approx weekly, fertilize with the others chook poo in sugar cane mulch and worm castings. prune autumn. No fruit yet but get heaps of flowers each year. as long as they grow I figure one day I will get fruit LOL